Cast: David Ryall
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring David Ryall. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Singing Detective (TV Miniseries)
1986 · Series · 415 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jon Amiel
Cast Michael Gambon · Patrick Malahide · Janet Suzman · Joanne Whalley
Plot Detective novelist Philip Marlow suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in...
7.7
152 votes
7.7
152 votes
To Play the King (House of Cards II) (TV Miniseries)
1993 · Series · 220 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Seed
Cast Ian Richardson · Michael Kitchen · Kitty Aldridge · Colin Jeavons
Plot In 'To Play The King', the second installment of this political satire, Francis Urquhart has managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. Everyone who knows...
7.4
414 votes
7.4
414 votes
The Village (TV Series)
2013 · Series · 59 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Antonia Bird · Gillies MacKinnon · Dominic Leclerc · Luke Watson
Cast Maxine Peake · John Simm · David Ryall · Nico Mirallegro
Plot TV Series (2013-2014). 2 Seasons. 12 Episodes. Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.
7.2
194 votes
7.2
194 votes
Clapham Junction (TV)
2007 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Adrian Shergold
Cast Tom Beard · Rachael Blake · Samantha Bond · Stuart Bunce
Plot 36 hours in the lives of a number of gay men in Clapham, South London.
6.9
146 votes
6.9
146 votes
The Woman in Black (TV)
1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Wise
Cast Adrian Rawlins · Bernard Hepton · David Daker · Pauline Moran
Plot When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant...
6.2
228 votes
6.2
228 votes
Carrington
1995 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christopher Hampton
Cast Emma Thompson · Jonathan Pryce · Steven Waddington · Rufus Sewell
Plot The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Steve Bendelack
Cast Mark Gatiss · Steve Pemberton · Reece Shearsmith · David Warner
Plot The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real...
6.2
104 votes
6.2
104 votes
Restoration
1994 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Hoffman
Cast Robert Downey Jr. · Sam Neill · Hugh Grant · Meg Ryan
Plot An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court...
6.0
1K votes
6.0
1K votes
Wilt
1989 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Tuchner
Cast Griff Rhys Jones · Mel Smith · Alison Steadman · Diana Quick
Plot Henry Wilt is a more or less failure of a teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. After his wife disappears on the day after a party,...
5.3
476 votes
5.3
476 votes
The Borrowers (TV Miniseries)
1992 · Movie · 170 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Henderson
Cast Ian Holm · Penelope Wilton · Rebecca Callard · Paul Cross
Plot The Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in human homes, and survive by 'borrowing' all...
5.1
21 votes
5.1
21 votes
Automata
2014 · Movie · 110 min. · Spain
Direction Gabe Ibáñez
Cast Antonio Banderas · Birgitte Hjort Sørensen · Melanie Griffith · Dylan McDermott
Plot Year 2044. Planet earth is in the midst of gradual desertification. Mankind struggles to survive as the environment deteriorates and the slow regression of the human race begins in "Automata"....
4.8
6K votes
4.8
6K votes
Love for Lydia (TV Series)
1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tony Wharmby · Christopher Hodson · John Glenister · Piers Haggard
Cast Mel Martin · Christopher Blake · Jeremy Irons · Sherrie Hewson
Plot TV Series (1977). 13 episodes. This thirteen-part series explores just how painful love can be for young people. Would-be writer Edward Richardson is in love with heiress Lydia Aspen and...
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The Knowledge (TV)
1979 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bob Brooks
Cast Nigel Hawthorne · Mick Ford · Kim Taylforth · Jonathan Lynn
Plot Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
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The Dance of Death
1969 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Giles
Cast Laurence Olivier · Geraldine McEwan · Robert Lang · Janina Faye
Plot An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice,...
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Shuttlecock
1993 · Movie · 85 min. · France
Direction Andrew Piddington
Cast Alan Bates · Lambert Wilson · Kenneth Haigh · Jill Meager
Plot Major James Prentis is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends...
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Justiz
1993 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany
Direction Hans W. Geissendörfer
Cast Maximilian Schell · Thomas Heinze · Anna Thalbach · Mathias Gnädinger
Plot Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and...
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Walter (TV)
1982 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Frears
Cast Ian McKellen · Barbara Jefford · Arthur Whybrow · Tony Melody
Plot A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.
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The Tractate Middoth (TV)
2013 · Movie · 36 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mark Gatiss
Cast Sacha Dhawan · Louise Jameson · John Castle · Roy Barraclough
Plot A chilling adaptation of MR James's short story and a return of the cherished ghost story to BBC Two at Christmas. In a quiet academic library, John Eldred seeks out...
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Blackball
2003 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mel Smith
Cast Paul Kaye · James Cromwell · Alice Evans · Bernard Cribbins
Plot Try as he might, the roguishly handsome Cliff Starkey, just can't keep out of trouble. In his sleepy home town on the English coast, nothing much inspires him...apart from bowls....
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In the Red (TV Miniseries)
1998 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcus Mortimer
Cast Sally Phillips · Warren Clarke · David Ryall · Rebecca Front
Plot A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a...
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